SOC 2 Type 1 or Type 2 report in 3 months
SOC 2 Compliance Service
We run your SOC 2 programme end to end — scoping, controls, evidence and audit — so your team can keep building. A named compliance manager owns the outcome, not a support queue.
3
Months to a SOC 2 report
95%
Of evidence work automated
1
Named compliance manager
24/7
Continuous control monitoring
The service
You are not buying a dashboard. You are buying a finished report.
Most SOC 2 vendors sell you software and leave the work to you. Nank.ai operates the programme. You get a named compliance manager who owns the outcome, working alongside AI agents that handle evidence collection and continuous control monitoring.
Nank.ai does not issue the report. Only a licensed CPA firm can. We prepare you, select and brief the auditor with you, and manage the engagement — the opinion comes from an independent firm, as it must.
Who it is for
SOC 2 is rarely something you want. It is something a customer asks for.
This service is built for the four situations that follow.
A deal is blocked on it
An enterprise buyer has made SOC 2 a condition of signing, and the timeline is measured in weeks rather than quarters.
No internal compliance function
Nobody on the team has run an audit before, and pulling an engineer onto it for six months is the most expensive option available.
A stalled first attempt
You bought compliance software, filled in some policies, and the project quietly stopped once the real work became clear.
An annual report to keep
You already hold a SOC 2 and need the next Type 2 window run properly without it consuming a quarter again.
The first decision
Type 1 or Type 2 — which you need
Getting this wrong costs months. A Type 1 proves your controls are designed correctly on a single date. A Type 2 proves they operated correctly across a window of time.
SOC 2 Type 1
The faster route when a deal needs an answer now.
- Tests control design at a point in time
- Observation window: a single date
- Accepted by buyers as an interim step
- No operating history required
SOC 2 Type 2
The report enterprise procurement actually wants.
- Tests control effectiveness over a period
- Observation window: typically 3–12 months
- The standard for enterprise vendor reviews
- Requires controls already operating
The route we usually recommend: Type 1 first to unblock the deal, then roll straight into a Type 2 observation window without stopping. The evidence pipeline built for the Type 1 is the same one the Type 2 samples — treating them as separate projects is what makes SOC 2 expensive.
The engagement
How it runs, week by week
The order is not optional. Most expensive SOC 2 projects go wrong because two of these steps were swapped.
Weeks 1–2
Scope and gap assessment
We agree which Trust Services Criteria apply. Security is mandatory; the other four are included only where your customers actually require them — every extra criterion adds controls, evidence and audit time. You get a gap report naming every control, its state, and who owns closing it.
Weeks 2–6
Controls, policies and remediation
Your compliance manager drafts the policy set against your actual operating practice, and works with your engineers on the technical gaps — access reviews, logging, change management, vendor risk, incident response. We keep it proportionate: a twenty-person company does not need the control environment of a bank.
Weeks 4–10
Evidence automation and monitoring
AI agents connect to your cloud, identity, ticketing and HR systems and collect evidence continuously instead of in a scramble before the audit. Control drift is flagged when it happens, not discovered by the auditor. This is what determines whether year two is easy or another full project.
Weeks 8–12
Readiness review and auditor selection
We run a full readiness review against the criteria before any auditor sees anything, then help you select and brief an independent CPA firm.
Ongoing
Audit support and the next cycle
Your compliance manager handles the auditor relationship, evidence requests and any findings. Once the report is issued, monitoring continues so the next Type 2 window is a continuation rather than a restart.
Deliverables
What you get
- A named compliance manager who owns the outcome, not a support queue
- A scoped control set mapped to the Trust Services Criteria that apply to you
- A complete policy set written against how your company actually works
- Automated evidence collection across your cloud, identity and ticketing systems
- Continuous control monitoring with drift alerts
- A readiness review before the auditor is engaged
- Auditor selection support and full audit liaison
- A repeatable cycle for the following year
What we will not tell you
That SOC 2 can be done in three weeks, that it requires no engineering time, or that a platform alone gets you there. Every SOC 2 involves real work from your team — access reviews, infrastructure changes, decisions only you can make. What a managed service changes is how much of that work lands on your people, and how much of it is wasted.
The difference
Why a managed service rather than compliance software
Vanta, Drata, Secureframe and Sprinto are good products. If you have an experienced compliance lead in-house they may be all you need. If you do not, a platform hands you a list of 100 tasks and a completion percentage — it cannot decide your scope, judge whether a control is proportionate, write a policy that reflects your practice, or sit across from an auditor.
Compliance software
- Evidence collection: automated
- Scoping decisions: yours
- Policy authoring: templates to adapt
- Remediation work: yours
- Auditor liaison: yours
- Who owns the deadline: you
Nank.ai managed service
- Evidence collection: automated
- Scoping decisions: ours, with you
- Policy authoring: written for your operation
- Remediation: led by your compliance manager
- Auditor liaison: ours
- Who owns the deadline: us
Questions
Frequently asked questions
How long does SOC 2 take?
A Type 1 is achievable in as little as three months from kick-off for a focused scope with reasonable starting maturity. A Type 2 additionally requires an observation window — usually three months at minimum — during which controls must be operating. Companies starting with no formal controls, or with significant infrastructure gaps, should plan for longer.
Does Nank.ai issue the SOC 2 report?
No. Only a licensed CPA firm can issue a SOC 2 report. We prepare you for the audit, select and brief the auditor with you, and manage the engagement — but the opinion comes from an independent firm, as it must.
Which Trust Services Criteria do we need?
Security is mandatory in every SOC 2. The other four — availability, confidentiality, processing integrity and privacy — are optional and should be included only where a customer contract or a genuine business need requires them. Adding criteria you do not need is one of the most common ways SOC 2 scope inflates.
We already use a compliance platform. Can you work with it?
Yes. If you have already invested in a platform we can operate within it rather than replacing it. The gap we fill is the expertise and the ownership, not the tooling.
Can we do SOC 2 and ISO 27001 together?
Yes, and it is usually cheaper than doing them separately. The control sets overlap substantially, so one evidence pipeline and one policy set can serve both with the differences handled deliberately. See our ISO 27001 certification service.
Where is our data held?
In the country your company resides in. For Canadian clients that means Canadian data residency, which also matters for PIPEDA and provincial health privacy obligations such as PHIPA.
Talk to someone who has run this before
A short call is usually enough to tell you whether Type 1 or Type 2 is right, what your scope should be, and roughly how long it will take. We will tell you if you do not need us.